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The Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in the Appalachian Plateau region of the United States. Referred to locally as the " Tri-State area," and colloquially as "Kyova" (K entuck y, O hio, and West V irgini a), the region spans seven counties in the three states of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. [3]
Randolph County is the largest by area at 1,040 square miles (2,694 km 2), and Hancock County is the smallest at 83 square miles (215 km 2). [ 8 ] Kanawha County contributed land to the founding of 12 West Virginia counties [ 12 ] and has the largest population (174,805 in 2023). Wirt County has the smallest population (5,000 in 2023). [ 13 ]
Kentucky was originally a single county in Virginia, created in 1776. In 1780, Kentucky County was divided into Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln counties. Kentucky was admitted as a state in 1792, when it had nine counties. [4] Each county has a legislative council called the fiscal court; [5] despite the name, it no longer has any ...
The list shows the population of each county as of the 2000 U.S. Census; cities in Virginia, which are legally independent of counties, are included within the county with which they were historically associated. It also gives the following four variables: 3-year average unemployment rate, based on data collected 2006–2008
Interstate 64 in West Virginia. Interstate 64 (I-64) is an Interstate Highway in the US state of West Virginia. It travels east–west through the state for 189 miles (304 km) passing by the major towns and cities of Huntington, Charleston, Beckley, and Lewisburg.
Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. [5] The seat of Cabell County, the city is located at the confluence of the Ohio and Guyandotte rivers. Huntington is the second-most populous city in West Virginia, with a population of 46,842 as of the 2020 census. Its metro area, the Huntington–Ashland ...
The region defined by the commission currently includes 420 counties and eight independent cities in 13 states, including all 55 counties in West Virginia, 14 counties in New York, 52 in Pennsylvania, 32 in Ohio, 3 in Maryland, 54 in Kentucky, 25 counties and 8 cities in Virginia, [11] 29 in North Carolina, 52 in Tennessee, 6 in South Carolina ...
Cabell County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 94,350, [ 1 ] making it West Virginia's fourth most-populous county. Its county seat is Huntington. [ 2 ] The county was organized in 1809 and named for William H. Cabell, the Governor of Virginia from 1805 to 1808. [ 3 ]